What is our mission?
Our mission here at UK Coptic Icons is to increase the effectiveness, the knowledge and love of Coptic Iconography and all that
it is able to give us.
Coptic Art is an enormous vehicle that helps Coptic youth retain their sense of belonging to Egypt. When one walks into a Coptic church anywhere in the world, perhaps the most obvious sight that signifies the church being Coptic is the icons themselves. Their style, their colours and their content reflect the cultural heritage, the character of the painter and also the generation which the painter feels he or she belongs to.
For this reason I believe that a painter of any new church ought to be of a mind and spirit that represents the generation of that church. He or she should be a person born and brought up in the same culture, yet with a firm empathy for his/her Coptic-Egyptian heritage. As Pope Shenouda III (Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church) said: 'the future of any church is its youth. A church without youth is a church without a future.'
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